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7th Oct 2014
Committees - Fuel and Energy Committee - Resolution of Appointment
Helen Coonan voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 88% attendance
Helen Coonan
Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW July 1996 – August 2011
Rebelled 0.19% of the time explain rebellions 48% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Australia's timber industry
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing surveillance powers
Voted moderately for
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising government assets
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Public transport
- Same-sex marriage equality
Voted moderately against
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Increasing consumer protections
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted strongly against
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the age pension
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
Has never voted on
- A citizenship test
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Carbon farming
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Investing in climate science
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Stem cell research
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The right to protest
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Helen Coonan has voted against the majority of their party 1 time since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Helen Coonan has taken part in 4 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Helen Coonan voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Helen Coonan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Helen Coonan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Helen Coonan voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Bills — Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Amendment (Disallowance and Amendment Power of the Commonwealth) Bill 2010; in Committee
Helen Coonan voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Bills — Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Amendment (Disallowance and Amendment Power of the Commonwealth) Bill 2010; Second Reading
Helen Coonan voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Bills — Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Amendment (Disallowance and Amendment Power of the Commonwealth) Bill 2010; Third Reading
Helen Coonan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Senators attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Senators that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 92% | David Bushby | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 91% | Sue Boyce | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 91% | Simon Birmingham | SA | Liberal Party |
| 91% | Russell Trood | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 91% | Cory Bernardi | SA | whilst Liberal Party |